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Released

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Written by

Justin Richards

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11

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Once Upon a Time was a story printed in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2009.

The Tenth Doctor and Donna discover a book that changes every time someone reads it. Intrigued, they track down the author and find him in the process of writing the very story that led them to him. But the author cannot stop writing.

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There's something that I really like about stories about stories, and this does just scratch that itch for me. Sure the idea of a 'medium monster' has been done before, but as with a lot of these shorts there's a certain charm to the way it's done here.

The inciting incident is a great way to bring us in, especially being about the medium it's a part of, and the fact Donna briefly gets sucked into the monster's power as well gives us a chance to see what impact the creature can have on others from a first person view (if the descriptions of rotten fruits weren't enough).

And again, the ending, beating the creature with a happily ever after, and 10 reminiscing on how that used to be how things end is really nice and does bring you into the emotion.


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